"Gulliver's Travels (1977 film) Gulliver's Travels is a 1977 film based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift. It mixed live action and animation, and starred Richard Harris in the title role. The opening sequence in live action shows Gulliver announcing his intention to go to sea as a ship's surgeon, followed by scenes of a shipwreck. The remainder of the film has Harris on Lilliput and Blefuscu, with the tiny inhabitants created by animation. At the very end of the film, having escaped by boat from Lilliput, Gulliver encounters one of the giant inhabitants of Brobdingnag,"
"Lilliput and Blefuscu Lilliput and Blefuscu are two fictional island nations that appear in the first part of the 1726 novel ""Gulliver's Travels"" by Jonathan Swift. The two islands are neighbours in the South Indian Ocean, separated by a channel wide. Both are inhabited by tiny people who are about . Both kingdoms are empires, i.e. realms ruled by a self-styled emperor. The capital of Lilliput is Mildendo. In some pictures, the islands are arranged like an egg, as a reference to their egg-dominated histories and cultures. Swift gives the location of Lilliput and Blefuscu as Latitude 30°2′S, to the"
"Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les Géants, released in the United States as Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants and in the United Kingdom as Gulliver's Travels—In the land of the Lilliputians and the Giants, is a 1902 French short silent film directed by Georges Méliès, based on Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel ""Gulliver's Travels"". Méliès himself plays Gulliver in the film. The visual differences of scale between Gulliver and the countries he visits were created using multiple exposures and miniature models; Méliès uses substitution splices and careful"
"of that land. Glubbdubdrib is about one third as large as the Isle of Wight. The inhabitants of Glubbdubdrib can wield magic, and most of their technology is utilized through magical means. The eldest in succession is prince or governor of the island. He has a 'noble' palace, and a park of about three thousand acres, surrounded by a wall of hewn stone twenty foot high. On visiting Glubbdubdrib, Gulliver had the occasion, thanks to the power of their necromancers, to speak with Brutus of ancient Rome, whom Gulliver greatly admired, among many other famous historical personages, including Socrates. Many"
"Jötunheimr Jötunheimr (or Jǫtunheimr in Old Norse orthography; often anglicized as Jotunheim) is the homeland of the Jötnar, the giants in Norse mythology. From Jötunheimr, the giants menace the humans in Midgard and the gods in Asgard. The river Ifing (Old Norse, ""Ífingr"") separates Asgard, the realm of the gods, from Jötunheimr, the land of giants. Gastropnir, the protection wall to the home of Menglad, and Þrymheimr, home of Þjazi, were both located in Jötunheimr, which was ruled by King Thrym. Glæsisvellir was a location in Jötunheimr, where lived the giant Gudmund, father of Höfund. Utgard was a stronghold surrounding"
"the end of the series). Gulliver later lands in the land of Brobdingnag which consists of Giants. He is shown as an exhibition by Farmer Grultrud (Ned Beatty) and his daughter Glumdalclitch (Kate Maberly) who discover him. He is sold to a lady of the royal court, who presents him to the Queen of Brobdingnag (Alfre Woodard). He is examined by the doctors who ridicule him for his size, and discusses the politics of Brobdingnag, which are different from the traditional politics of the normal kingdom of England. He eventually gains the despise of the court dwarf Grildrig (Warwick Davis),"
"Gondolin Gondolin is a fictional city in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, inhabited by Elves. Founded with divine inspiration, it is hidden by mountains and endures for centuries before being betrayed and destroyed. It was the mightiest of the elven homes in the Hither Lands. The city was famed for its walls, and had possible parallels to Troy. The city is first described in ""The Fall of Gondolin"" which was the foundational completed tale for all of Tolkien's Middle-earth stories. The story was read aloud by Tolkien to the Exeter College Essay Club in the spring of 1920. Gondolin was"
"to be an ancient name for Pallene (modern Kassandra) and Phlegra/Pallene was the usual birthplace of the Giants and site of the battle. Apollodorus, who placed the battle at Pallene, says the Giants were born ""as some say, in Phlegrae, but according to others in Pallene"". The name Phlegra and the Gigantomachy were also often associated, by later writers, with a volcanic plain in Italy, west of Naples and east of Cumae, called the Phlegraean Fields. The third century BC poet Lycophron, apparently locates a battle of gods and Giants in the vicinity of the volcanic island of Ischia, the"
"first appeared, GUTS tried to find a suitable name for the giant. With sub-captain Munakata's suggestion being rejected, it was Daigo who gives the giant his actual name, which was accepted by the rest of GUTS' members. The rejected name Mountain Gulliver seems to be based on the 1726 Irish novel ""Gulliver's Travels"". 30,000,000 years prior to the series, Ultraman Tiga and two other Ultra Warriors were giants that protected the ancient Earth from countless catastrophes and numerous dark forces. With their deed done, the giants left their bodies as stone statues in the , while their essence departed to"
"has made the setting of the story of the Giants"": According to the Greek geographer, the Giants who survived, were driven out by Heracles, finding refuge with their mother in Leuca (Apulia), in Italy's 'heel'. A fountain there had smelly water the locals claimed to be from the ichor of the giants. Strabo also mentions an account of Heracles battling Giants at Phanagoria, a Greek colony on the shores of the Black Sea. Phlegra (mythology) Phlegra () is both a real and a mythical location in both Greek and Roman mythology. Phlegra is a peninsula of Macedonia (more specifically in"
"Þrúðvangr In Norse mythology, Þrúðvangr (Old Norse ""power-field"", sometimes anglicized as Thrudvang or Thruthvang) or Þrúðvangar (plural form) is/are a field/fields where the god Thor resides. The field is attested in the ""Prose Edda"" and in ""Heimskringla"", both written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century. In the ""Prose Edda"" book ""Gylfaginning"", the enthroned figure of High tells Gangleri (King Gylfi in disguise) about the god Thor. Among other details, High mentions that Thor's realm is Þrúðvangr and that Thor owns the hall Bilskírnir, the largest of all buildings ever erected. Further in ""Gylfaginning"", High mentions that Thor returned to"
"a stone boat and rows up to the nest. Arrow-Odd is taken by this giant to Giantland where he spends some time, before continuing an extraordinary life that is destined to last for three hundred years. The English poet Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a work sometime around 1380 in which the poet himself is carried by an eagle up into the sky, near to the stars, to a place called the House of Fame, where he finds ancient writers and poets such as Orpheus and Simon Magus still living. The eagle then takes Geoffrey to a strange building built of ""twigges"""
"previously located at Guildhall but as of 2015 has been relocated to the Science Museum. The marathon route of the 2012 Summer Olympics passed through Guildhall Yard. Two giants, Gog and Magog, are associated with Guildhall. Legend has it that the two giants were defeated by Brutus and chained to the gates of his palace on the site of Guildhall. Carvings of Gog and Magog are kept in Guildhall and 7-foot high wicker effigies of them donated by the Worshipful Company of Basketmakers in 2007 lead the procession in the annual Lord Mayor's Show. Early versions of Gog and Magog"
"Glubbdubdrib, he visits a magician's dwelling and discusses history with the ghosts of historical figures, the most obvious restatement of the ""ancients versus moderns"" theme in the book. The ghosts consist of Julius Caesar, Brutus, Homer, Aristotle, René Descartes, and Pierre Gassendi. On the island of Luggnagg, he encounters the ""struldbrugs"", people who are immortal. They do not have the gift of eternal youth, but suffer the infirmities of old age and are considered legally dead at the age of eighty. After reaching Japan, Gulliver asks the Emperor ""to excuse my performing the ceremony imposed upon my countrymen of trampling"
"in Europe, consistent with the figure. Gulliver also describes visiting the chief temple in Lorbrulgrud, whose tower was the highest in the kingdom, but reports he ""came back disappointed, for the height is not above three thousand foot"", which ""allowing for the difference in size between those people and us in Europe"" is ""not equal in proportion to Salisbury steeple"". Outside world whales are stated to be of a size that one man can barely carry, and are eaten by common folk if they find a beached specimen. Brobdingnag is said to be located between Japan and California, extending six"
"up. The man-eating giants are suspended under the helicopters and carried back to London where they are then imprisoned in a deep pit. After BFG has Fleshlumpeater untied and is hoisted out of the pit, the man-eating giants find themselves being only fed snozzcumbers. Afterwards, a huge castle is built as the BFG's new house, with a little cottage next door for Sophie. While they are living happily in England, with several gifts coming in for many years from the governments of every country ever targeted by the giants (notably England, Sweden, Arabia, India, Panama, Tibet, Jersey, Chile, and New"
"eyes and wounding her sufficiently that she fled in pain. Whether the longer Gondolin swords mentioned in Tolkien's works had similar powers versus spiders is unknown. Such creatures were common in the Ered Gorgoroth south of Gondolin. Gondolin Gondolin is a fictional city in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, inhabited by Elves. Founded with divine inspiration, it is hidden by mountains and endures for centuries before being betrayed and destroyed. It was the mightiest of the elven homes in the Hither Lands. The city was famed for its walls, and had possible parallels to Troy. The city is first described"
"which his Laputan astronomers had discovered. Lagado Lagado is a fictional city from the satirical book of ""Gulliver's Travels"" by Jonathan Swift. Lagado is the capital of the nation Balnibarbi, which is ruled by a tyrannical king from a flying island called Laputa. Lagado is on the ground below Laputa, and also has access to Laputa at any given time to proceed in an attack or defense. It is located in the centre of the kingdom, some 150 miles from that land's Pacific coast. Lagado is poverty stricken like the rest of the nation. The king had invested a great"
"ideas of historians were corrected this way. Gulliver spends five days doing this, then three days looking at some of the 'modern' dead, trying to find the greatest figure in the past 200 or 300 years in his country and others in Europe. Gulliver gets a new view of historians and heroes, claiming 'I was chiefly disgusted with modern History'. Glubbdubdrib Glubbdubdrib (also spelled Glubdubdrib or Glubbdubdribb in some editions) was an island of sorcerers and magicians, one of the imaginary countries visited by Lemuel Gulliver in the satire ""Gulliver's Travels"" by Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift. The location of Glubdubdrib"
"Laputa Laputa is a flying island described in the 1726 book ""Gulliver's Travels"" by Jonathan Swift. It is about 4.5 miles in diameter, with an adamantine base, which its inhabitants can maneuver in any direction using magnetic levitation. It has a cave in the very centre which is precisely there to gather all the rainwater. It is also used by the king to enforce his supremacy. Laputa was located above the realm of Balnibarbi, which was ruled by its king from the flying island. Gulliver states the island flew by the “magnetic virtue” of certain minerals in the grounds of"
"three ""glonglungs"" (about fifty four English miles) and two and a half in breadth"". Gulliver tells us that Lorbrulgrud was ""situated near the middle of that empire"" and was three thousand miles distant from the farmer's house on the coast, that the journey took ten weeks and that they ""crossed five or six rivers many degrees broader and deeper than the Nile or the Ganges"", and ""there was hardly a rivulet smaller than the Thames at London Bridge"". The people of Brobdingnag are described as giants who are as tall as 60 feet high and whose stride is ten yards."
"of his 'prediction' of the two then undiscovered Martian moons, which his Laputan astronomers had discovered. Laputa, as with some of Swift's other inventions, was the inspiration and basis for many later works. Examples include: Laputa Laputa is a flying island described in the 1726 book ""Gulliver's Travels"" by Jonathan Swift. It is about 4.5 miles in diameter, with an adamantine base, which its inhabitants can maneuver in any direction using magnetic levitation. It has a cave in the very centre which is precisely there to gather all the rainwater. It is also used by the king to enforce his"
"of their belief that the woman in the forest and the deadly serpent are one and the same. Jill explains that according to Aslan's second sign, they have to go north beyond Narnia to the Ruined City of the Giants. The owls take Eustace and Jill to a marshwiggle named Puddleglum, who will be their guide. The trio travel north, eventually encountering a lady riding on horseback alongside an unspeaking knight in black armour. The lady introduces herself as the Lady of the Green Kirtle, and advises them to pay a visit to the Giants of Harfang, where they will"
"been associated with the Gigantomachy. The presence of volcanic phenomena, and the frequent unearthing of the fossilized bones of large prehistoric animals throughout these locations may explain why such sites became associated with the Giants. Pindar writes that the battle occurred at Phlegra (""the place of burning""), as do other early sources. Phlegra was said to be an ancient name for Pallene, and Phlegra/Pallene was the usual birthplace of the Giants and site of the battle. Apollodorus, who placed the battle at Pallene, says the Giants were born ""as some say, in Phlegrae, but according to others in Pallene"". But"
"Balnibarbi Balnibarbi is a fictional land in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel ""Gulliver's Travels"". it was visited by Lemuel Gulliver after he was rescued by the people of the flying island of Laputa. The location of Balnibarbi is illustrated in both the text and the map at the beginning of part III of ""Gulliver's Travels"", though they are not consistent with each other. The map shows Balnibarbi to be an island to the east of Japan and to the northeast of Luggnagg. The text states that the kingdom of Balnibarbi is part of a continent which extends itself ""eastward to that"
"a Broomstick"", which he wrote for her), was shown about by her ""father"" (William Temple), found the living too coarse for his sensibilities, left her company for a ""promotion"" to London and court life, and mourned her absence for the rest of his life. Glumdalclitch Glumdalclitch is the name Gulliver gives his ""nurse"" in Book II of Jonathan Swift's ""Gulliver's Travels"". In Book I, Gulliver travels to the land of Lilliput. Leaving there, he travels to the land of Brobdingnag. In Lilliput, Gulliver was a giant, and in Brobdingnag, he is a dwarf, with the proportions reversed. When he comes"
"vermin—than in any other of the strange countries he visited, but the people are civilised. A ""splacknuck"" is an animal about long, to which Gulliver is compared in size, although it is never explained which animal it corresponds to (probably a rodent of some sort, such as a rat). Fossil records are claimed to show that the ancestors of the Brobdingnagians were once even larger, but it is possible scholars have misidentified the fossils as human, which happened in Europe as well at the time. The King of Brobdingnag argues that the race has deteriorated. The language of Brobdingnag is"
"for its breadth by any other in the early days of man's world ... it was home of the Utunapishtim, who survived the flood, it was soapstone for figurines, alabaster for bowls, carnelian heads beads, cowries and pearls ... it was copper and lapis lazuli."" (""The Sumerian Connection"", Jon Mandaville and Michael Grimsdale, ARAMCO World March/April 1980). Dilmun is the ""Paradise Land, the original home of the gods, the archetypical Holy Land"" to which the Mesopotamian hero Gilgamesh travels to in his epic journey. (Dilmun Discovered, Michael Rice, p. 7). In accounts written by his biographer Arrian, Alexander the Great"
"the mountain to a subterranean lake. Occasional goblins sought fish here for the Great Goblin. Gollum made his home on an island in this lake in about . During the quest to Erebor in , Bilbo Baggins and the Dwarves of Thorin Oakenshield were sheltering in the front porch when they were captured by soldiers of Goblin-town. The captives were brought before the Great Goblin, who accused them of spying, and was enraged to find out Thorin was carrying the sword Orcrist ""Orc-cleaver"". With the help of Gandalf, Bilbo and the Dwarves escaped and killed the Great Goblin, after which"
"in Guilin, a city in southern China, which is famous for its karst formations. The planet's unique biosphere was first detailed in ""The Wookiee Storybook"". The planet was revealed to be a densely forested planet, on which one can encounter vast plains and island areas suitable for large, sweeping battles. It was in this book that the family of Chewbacca once again appears in a situation similar to that of the Holiday Special. The planet appears in several other books, as well. Among them are: Kashyyyk also features in issue #91 of the Marvel Comics ""Star Wars"" and in the"
"gnats"". In his short work with E. Hoffmann Price, ""Through the Gates of the Silver Key"", H. P. Lovecraft briefly mentions Tartary: ""Upon their cloaked heads there now seemed to rest tall, uncertainly coloured mitres, strangely suggestive of those on certain nameless figures chiselled by a forgotten sculptor along the living cliffs of a high, forbidden mountain in Tartary"". ""The Squire's Tale"" from Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"" is set in the royal court of Tartary. In Jonathan Swift's ""Gulliver's Travels"", the eponymic hero refers to his travels in Tartary on two occasions, and suggests that the then modern geographers of"
"Luggnagg Luggnagg is an island kingdom, one of the imaginary countries visited by Lemuel Gulliver in the satire ""Gulliver's Travels"" by Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift. The location of Luggnagg is illustrated in both the text and the map at the beginning of part III of ""Gulliver's Travels"", though they are not consistent with each other. According to the map, Luggnagg is southeast of Japan and southwest of Balnibarbi. The book's text states that Luggnagg is located about one hundred leagues southeast of Japan, but northwest of Balnibarbi and gives its position as 29°N 140°E. The page notes refer to Frederick"
"and Belilena (12,000 BP) are the most important. In these caves, archaeologists have found the remains of anatomically modern humans which they have named Balangoda Man, and other evidence suggesting that they may have engaged in agriculture and kept domestic dogs for driving game. One of the first written references to the island is found in the Indian epic Ramayana, which provides details of a kingdom named ""Lanka"" that was created by the divine sculptor Vishwakarma for Kubera, the Lord of Wealth. It is said that Kubera was overthrown by his demon stepbrother Ravana, the powerful emperor who built a"